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9/03/2012

Obama simultaneously gets people with misdemeanors fired from jobs, he pushes for violent felons to vote

Could someone please explain the why people with nonviolent misdemeanors should lose their jobs but violent felons should be able to vote? Why should a rapist be able to vote on issues that directly impact women but someone who put a fake coin in a laundromat as a teenager should lose his job 50 years later? Nutty Obama regulations:

Egger's crime? Putting a cardboard cutout of a dime in a washing machine in Carlisle on Feb. 2, 1963.

"It was a stupid stunt and I'm not real proud of it, but to fire somebody for something like this after seven good years of employment is a dirty trick when you come right down to it," said Eggers of Des Moines. "And they're doing this kind of thing all across the country."

Big banks have been firing low-level employees like Eggers since the issuance of new federal banking employment guidelines in May 2011 and new mortgage employment guidelines in February.

The tougher standards are meant to weed out executives and mid-level bank employees guilty of transactional crimes, like identity fraud or mortgage fraud, but they are being applied across-the-board thanks to $1 million a day fines for noncompliance.